BILL NUMBER: SCR 58	CHAPTERED  08/17/00

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   105
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   AUGUST 17, 2000
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   AUGUST 10, 2000
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   JULY 6, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 24, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Kelley

                        JANUARY 14, 2000

   Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 58--Relative to the Doctor June
McCarroll Memorial Freeway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 58, Kelley.  Doctor June McCarroll Memorial Freeway.
   This measure would dedicate the portion of Interstate Highway
Route 10 near Indio in Riverside County between the Jefferson Street
and Indio Boulevard interchange and the junction with State Highway
Route 86 to the memory of Doctor June McCarroll, and would specify
that this portion of Interstate Highway Route 10 shall be known as
the "Doctor June McCarroll Memorial Freeway."  This measure also
would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost
of appropriate plaques and markers showing that special designation
and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that
cost, to erect those plaques and markers.




   WHEREAS, Doctor June McCarroll first arrived in California in
1904, when she moved to Indio in order to place her ailing husband in
a health camp for persons infected with tuberculosis; and
   WHEREAS, It was in Indio where Doctor June McCarroll acquired the
name "Doctor June" and traveled, at first by horse and buggy and
later by horseback, in order to practice medicine; and
   WHEREAS, In 1907, Doctor June practiced medicine on five Indian
reservations and later became the doctor retained by the Southern
Pacific Railroad to treat its employees in the Coachella Valley; and
   WHEREAS, In later life, she expressed regrets that younger doctors
were seemingly unable to function without modern hospitals and other
conveniences when she had sometimes operated on kitchen tables,
explaining "I would clear off the table, tie the patient down, and
administer the anesthetic"; and
   WHEREAS, Doctor June is also credited with starting the first
library in the Coachella Valley; and
   WHEREAS, Although Doctor June McCarroll has a reputation in the
Coachella Valley based on her practice of medicine and dedication to
her immediate community, she is also known for her role in initiating
the painting of centerlines upon streets and highways; and
   WHEREAS, In 1924, after she and the Indio Women's Club and the
California Federation of Women's Clubs proposed it, the idea of
painting a centerline on state highways was adopted by the California
Highway Commission, and the first white centerline was painted, by
hand with a paintbrush, on Indio Boulevard, coincidentally, on the
street where Doctor June McCarroll was then living; and
   WHEREAS, This idea has saved thousands of lives since its early
beginning over 75 years ago; and
   WHEREAS, It is appropriate that the portion of Interstate Highway
Route 10 near Indio in Riverside County between the Jefferson Street
and Indio Boulevard interchange and the junction with State Highway
Route 86 be dedicated in the memory of this remarkable person; now,
therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby dedicates the portion
of Interstate Highway Route 10 near Indio in Riverside County
between the Jefferson Street and Indio Boulevard interchange and the
junction with State Highway Route 86 to the memory of Doctor June
McCarroll; and be it further
   Resolved, That this portion of Interstate Highway Route 10 be
officially designated the "Doctor June McCarroll Memorial Freeway";
and be it further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the cost of appropriate plaques and markers, consistent
with the signing requirements for the state highway system, showing
this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources covering that cost, to erect those plaques and markers; and
be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the Director of Transportation and to the author for
distribution.
